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Date:         Sun, 19 Apr 1998 10:52:44 -0700
Reply-To:     Bill <Bill@FREEHOLDER.COM>
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From:         Bill <Bill@FREEHOLDER.COM>
Subject:      Re: '46 Type I FS
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Acording to the info in Muir's book, 1,785 cars were produced in 1945, and 10,020 in 1946, but the first cars officially exported to the US were two in 1949. That doesn't preclude the possibility that one of the earlier cars was brought over privately.

At 08:44 AM 4/19/98 -0700, you wrote: >I may be full of hot gasses, but didn't WW II end in 1945 and the VW >plant lay in ruins. I would think it would have been difficult to get >into production by 1946. Just a thought.

Bill (SE Arizona) (Bill@freeholder.com) HTTP://www.freeholder.com ---------------------------------------------------------- You can't do everything, but you can do something. You can't help everyone, but you can help someone. Even one candle helps to push back the darkness.


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